What is
growing now.
New work grows from long relationships — with people, places and the questions that keep asking to be explored.
After the
feasibility study.
The completed feasibility work explored the Saffron Trail as a cultural and ecological corridor — bringing walking, mapping, ecological fieldwork and creative practice together around water.
The next chapter focuses on developing opportunities at Danbury and Audley End, working with partners to connect ecological care, access, participation and artistic practice.
The feasibility project was supported by Bluespaces funding from Essex & Suffolk Water.
Maps, field notes & project report ↗A home for
shared work.
I founded Samara Cultures to support collaborative cultural and ecological work, bringing artistic practice into relationships with people and place.
Samara provides a developing organisational context for this work. My individual artistic practice remains distinct: a place for making, experimentation, writing and research.
Samara Cultures ↗Monuments to
Collective Care.
A commission with Essex Cultural Diversity Project and Trust Links, inspired by the Growing Together garden community in Vange, Basildon. The work explores shared care, plant knowledge and the relationships between people and their environment through participatory making.
This is developing work; the final installation is still to come.
Read the commissioner’s project introduction ↗Continuing
the enquiry.
Alongside project work, I am a Visiting Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Essex, a JUST Practice Builder, and Arts & Culture Co-Chair and Ambassador with the World Trails Network. These contexts connect artistic practice with research, public space and international conversations about land and access.
Roles, appointments & dates ↗